Based on the data in 23 kinds of core journals of the library science, information science and philology with the contents of sci-tech novelty retrieval in CSSCI, this paper makes a bibliometric analysis on the distribution of years, regional distribution of authors, analysis on the situation of coauthors, distribution of papers in journals, and the contents of papers from 247 papers on novelty retrieval, sums up the main problems existing in novelty retrieval resea...